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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Veterans Day Mysteries/Veterans Day Crime Fiction

Veterans Day, originally known as Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day), is November 11. Veterans Day
commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and
Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the
Western Front, that took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" 1918.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day November 11, 1919. The U.S. Congress passed a concurrent
resolution seven years later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President
issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate
ceremonies. The 11th of November is"a day to be dedicated to the cause
of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as
'Armistice Day'." It was later changed to Veteran's Day.

Wikipedia has an entry about Veterans Day Mysteries. Several hardboiled
heroes have been war veterans. H. C. McNeile (Sapper)'s Bulldog Drummond from World War I, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and many others from World War II, and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee
from the Korean War. "The frequent exposure to death and hardship often
leads to a cynical and callous attitude as well as a character trait
known today as post-traumatic stress characterizes many hardboiled
protagonists."

Read a Veterans Day mystery today and remember the men and women who fought (and are fighting) for world peace.